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His country will better consequences. today i am at authorising additional strong sanctions and new limitations on what can be exported to russia. this is going to impose severe cost on the russian economy, both immediately and over time. we are purposely designing the sanctions to maximise the long—term impact on russia, and minimise the impact on the united states and our allies. �* , ., ., ., our allies. lets hear now from washington- — 0ur correspondent, david willis, is there. he has ...

Acknowledges that these sanctions could take some while to bite, so they might not have very much impact on the russian economy in the short term. yeah, indeed, and they havent worked before, have they, when he has done this sort of thing before, in 2014, for instance. 0ne before, in 2014, for instance. one of the other criticisms that i have heard, david, and i wonder whether you could talk a little bit about this, is the fact that the west has not targeted the international payments system, sw...

A barrel today. and that, of course, is fuelling inflation. that is the last thing that the united states, for example, wants to see with inflation currently at an almost 40 year high here. and creating therefore a major problem for president biden politically, going into the mid—term elections later this year. he is going to be fighting inflation as it is, as best he can. of course, without having to combat additional problems caused by new measures which increase further the price of oil and...

The first confirmation of the invasion came at around 6:00am in moscow, when president putin announced a special military operation was under way in ukraines eastern donbas region. its purpose, he said, the demilitarisation and denazification of ukraine. as he spoke, missile strikes were reported across ukraine, including in the capital kyiv. russia said it had destroyed more than 70 military targets. that included 11 airfields. damage was reported from all across ukraine, including in the far w...